Journalistic Ethics & Standards

[Advanced Smite]

There are many examples on NAFPS of articles that contain interviews with individuals falsely representing themselves as belonging to a tribal nation. Those articles end up helping a pretendian further perpetrate their fraud by providing a degree of credibility. Does anyone know whether there are specific journalistic standards or best practices (United States or Canada) that address this issue? I thought a professional society in Canada released something on the harm of ethnic fraud and related reporting standards but I haven't been able to locate it again. I may be misremembering though.

[Sparks]

I thought a professional society in Canada released something on the harm of ethnic fraud and related reporting standards but I haven't been able to locate it again.

I wonder if what you are looking for might be found in one of my links?

https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2019/08/20/research-ethnic-fraud-and-the-academy-a-protocol-for-working-with-indigenous-communities-and-peoples/

https://www.canada.ca/en/research-coordinating-committee/priorities/indigenous-research/2023/report-what-we-heard.html

Also check Jean Teillet's "Indigenous Identity Fraud – A REPORT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN". Download link at the bottom of this post:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5665.0
[Indigenous Identity Fraud: A REPORT … by Jean Teillet, IPC, OMN, MSC]